Too Late For Redemption: Rise Of The Lycan Queen

Chapter Two

CHAPTER TWO: Worthless halfbreed

Ari's P. O. V.

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Walking to his office always feels like braving through the flaming path down Hell. My hands tremble slightly and my lungs struggle to function as normal. There's a protocol to everything when it comes to him and that's what makes being in his presence so nerve-wracking.

I knock on his office door while announcing my name and only come in after I've received an answer from him. The dark aura of his most beloved room welcomes me and suffocates me, my alertness increases, survival mode activates. Alpha Landon is on his phone, much to my relief, meaning he might tell me to return later or even better, he might be traveling again and will be away for weeks. I was really hoping for the latter.

Whenever I'm in his presence I have to acknowledge his superiority and kneel in front of him, so I quickly fell on both knees in front of his dark, mahogany desk, taking the opportunity to hide from him. I let my long light brown hair fall to the sides of my face like a curtain so I do not offend him with my face.

I always go to great lengths to hide my ugliness. Hayden once told me that I am the ugliest in all of Fallen Crest and I've been self- conscious about my face ever since. I never thought of myself as one of the pretty girls, my mother complimented me all the time but she's my mother after all, and I didn't get stared at or called ugly so I never realised that I was not exactly pleasant to look at until I moved to Fallen Crest.

"Please say I can go, please say I can go." I mentally chant over and over again as though I am chanting a spell. The sooner I leave this office, the better. The man absolutely destroys my gut, there's not a single thing in the world that frightens me more than him.

"Think very carefully about what you're going to say." He speaks calmly, ending the call and slamming the phone into the desk.

Only those who know him well know that that was a threat and that he'll utter the most abominable things in a strangely haunting, velvety get crisp "bedroom voice" and that voice dresses them as agreeable. Picture him as one of those smooth, well- articulated movie villains, except he has a temper hot enough to overthrow hell.

"Come here." He ordered curtly and in my panic I almost made the mistake of getting up. I never want to hear another, "Did I say you could get up?" from him ever again. It's not much his words but the look he gives you when he says them.

I crawled on all fours around the desk until I was directly in front of his chair; too close for my liking, his long legs were at my sides, almost framing me. I kept my head facing down and hid my face with my hair more dramatically to avoid his punishing grayish- blue eyes and more especially, his crotch.

"Explain yourself." His voice strums my ears and keeps me ever aware of just how close he is.

I kept quiet while roasting under the vicious intensity of his stare. Even though I could only see his meticulously polished shoes, I could just feel those devilish eyes on me. I don't remember doing anything to upset him so I was really confused and didn't want to utter anything stupid. Alpha Landon is severely allergic to stupidity, I got to learn that pretty quick.

I nearly gasped when his cold fingers slid under my chin and he tilted my head up. As soon as my hair fell away from my face, I tightly closed my eyes and held my breath.

"Look at me.' His thumb pressed just below my lips and I flinched internally, you know, that feeling of your guts shifting. I didn't know if he was testing me or not because I have gotten punished before for looking senior wolves in the eyes.

"I said look at me." He suddenly snared and my eyes flew open. My chest tightened and my stomach churned the second my eyes met his. His face was inches from mine and I wanted nothing more than to break eye contact and hide myself again.

"I am sorry, alpha. I don't know what I should explain, I am very sorry." Even though I didn't know what was going on, it's still best to apologize and try to appeal to his merciful side.

"Choose your punishment." He uttered the dreaded words.

And by that he means come up with what you think is torture so it can inspire something worse. I remained quiet, fear was beginning to make my mind malfunction.

"I hate it when you do that. Answer me when I talk to you."

"I'm sorry alpha…" I breathed out shakily. "If only I knew.."

"What is that?" My eyes followed his hand as he pointed at his treasured, authentic polr bear rug that usually decorates his bedroom floor. My eyes bulged out as soon as I noticed the stain. Oh no.

"Alpha, I'm sorry, please forgive me, I didn't realise-" My desperate pleas were cut- short by his stern, predatory voice.

"Do you know how much that rug costed? I could sell you to the Red River alpha for way less than that, you worthless halfbreed."

I tried hard not to cry, the last time I accidentally got my "filthy body fluids" on him when a tear fell on his hand, alpha Landon got so enraged and locked me up in a cold cell for three days without food or water. The second time, the punishment levels up, the third time you're calling for death- never make the same mistake twice, that's his most important rule, it doesn't matter if you're forced into that mistake or not.

Like in this instance. Audrey, the Head of the servants and the most bitter b***h I've ever met had dragged me from the bathroom while I changing my tampn, punched me and thrown me into alpha Landon's room just because I'd taken an "unpermitted' toilet break. Blood was dripping down my legs and she didn't care. Now how am I to tell this Demon lord of Fallen Crest that I got period blood on his carpet?

He was surely going to kill me today.

"Please forgive me, alpha, I'll remove it, I swear! I didn't mean to ruin your expensive rug, Audrey punched me and shoved me into-" Before I could finish and crumble apart disastrously, I'm startled as he puts his finger on my lips and stares at me intensely.

A frightening emotion quickly flickers through his eyes and they darken, "Shhhh.." He hushes me in the scariest way and hums deeply, then his lips slightly twitch at the corners like a psychopath practicing a smile

"My room needs cleaning, make sure it is spotless by the time I get back."

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